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Social Eyes: Week of July 2-8
This week's calendar picks feature Jacob Jolliff Band, Kelsy Karter and the Heroines, Benny Amón & The New Orleans Pearls, Generación Suicida, Morillo, Orqo Taki, Rosalía, 'Scabmuggers,' Marcus King Band, and Allison O’Conor.
New citizenship test challenges immigrants preparing for naturalization
On Sept. 17, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) posted a Federal Register notice announcing the implementation of the 2025 naturalization civics test. The new test, made effective Oct. 10, now contains double the number of...
Umami Mart bottles a taste of Japan
Umami Mart started as a blog and then materialized IRL as a pop-up in Oakland before expanding into its current incarnation as a specialty market and sake bar. Friends since childhood, Kayoko Akabori and Yoko Kumano were...
Free Will Astrology: Week of July 1
We’re halfway through 2026. How are your big projects progressing?
Oakland archivists protect Black queer history from disappearing
The pilgrimage purifies. It counts sacrifice in footsteps and heat stroke—a journey only for the traveler interested in overstanding how the humble get made. If one takes AC Transit and attempts the walk from the bus stop,...
Mylo Cardona uses theater to build queer community and resistance
To Oakland’s Mylo Cardona, theater is a space of community and belonging. For them, artistic expression is an extension of both the personal and the political—creation as an act of resistance against hierarchical structures of the status...
Maren Hassinger turns trash into art at BAMPFA
Watch for a scramble in September, when Cal undergraduates will line up to help scatter—and then reclaim—trash. As part of the ongoing retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving...
